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SPENCER, WILLIAM ROBERT (1769-1834)

This article appears in Volume V25, Page 638 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SOU-STE
SPENCER, WILLIAM ROBERT (1769-1834) , English poet and wit, was the son of Lord Charles
Spencer
 , second sort of Charles
Spencer
 , 3rd duke of Marlborough and 5th earl of Sunderland. He was educated at Harrow and Christ Church, Oxford; but left the university without taking a degree. Spencer's wit made him a popular member of society, but he took no part in public life although he numbered among his friends leading statesmen like Pitt, Fox and Sheridan. He was an accomplished writer of occasional " verse, which was warmly praised by Scott, by Christopher North and by Byron, who placed him in the same rank as Moore, Rogers and Campbell. In 1796 he published an English version of Burger's Leonore, and in 1802 he burlesqued German romance in his Urania, which was produced on the stage at Drury Lane. Among his best-known pieces, which were published in a collection of his poems in 1811, were " Beth Gelert "and "Too
Late
  I Stayed." He died in poverty in Paris in 1834. In 1791 he married Susan, daughter of Count ' Jenson-Walworth, chamberlain to the elector palatine, by whom he had five sons and two daughters. One son, AUBREY GEORGE SPENCER (1795-1872), became first bishop of
Newfoundland
  in 1839, being afterwards translated to the See of Jamaica. Another son, GEORGE TREVOR SPENCER (1799-1866), was in 1837 consecrated second bishop of
Madras
 . He published several books relating to missionary
work
  in India; on his return to England in 1849 he was appointed assistant to the bishop of Bath and Wells, and in i86o became chancellor of St Paul's Cathedral. He married, in 1823, Harriet, daughter of Sir Benjamin Hobhouse and sister of Lord Broughton.
See W. R. Spencer, Poems (London, 1835), containing, a biographical memoir; The Annual Register (1834); Alumni Oxonienses z7z5-.z6'86, annotated by J. Foster (4 vols., Oxford, 1890.


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